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Building women’s resilience to disasters by

What is the WRD Knowledge Hub?

The Women’s Resilience to Disasters Knowledge Hub brings together a community of practitioners who support women and girls affected by disasters, climate change, and other threats such as COVID-19.

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Introducing the WRD Policy Tracker

Review the progress of gender-responsive and inclusive legislative, strategic, policy, and planning frameworks in 193 UN Member States through an interactive map and data visualizations.

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Updates from the Caribbean

Significant progress is being made in the Caribbean on gender-responsive disaster and climate resilience.

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The WRD Knowledge Framework

Discover the architecture for building women's disaster and climate resilience knowledge.

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Key Publications & Tools

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Latest updates

Featured Event
Conference Room 6, UNHQ 17 May 2023

Accelerating Action for Gender Responsive Disaster Risk Reduction

Organised by UNDRR, UNFPA and UN Women, this event forms part of the Risk Reduction Hub events convened on the margins of the High-Level Meeting of the midterm review of the Sendai Framework. It will provide an opportunity to discuss persisting barriers to gender-responsive disaster risk reduction and key actions needed to accelerate the gender-responsive implementation of the Sendai Framework by 2030.

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Regional Highlights

The WRD Knowledge Framework

The Women's Resilience to Disasters Knowledge Framework provides the architecture for building women's disaster and climate resilience and for organising the WRD Knowledge Hub resources into topics.

3 Pillars of 15 Topics & 3 Cross-cutting Issues

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Pillar A

Risk

 1. Gender dimensions of disasters 2. Intersectionality 3. Gender data 4. Gender-responsive risk assessment 5. Gender-responsive needs assessment
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Pillar B

Systems

 6. Laws, policies, strategies, plans & projects 7. Budgets, expenditure & funding 8. Information management systems 9. Coordination mechanisms, networks & partnerships 10. Early warning, preparedness & risk communication systems
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Pillar C

Action

 11. Access to finance 12. Access to services 13. Access to resilient infrastructure 14. Women's resilient livelihoods & businesses 15. Women's freedom from violence
Global frameworks Women's leadership, voice, agency, participation & advocacy Capabilities, awareness, knowledge & skills

Cross-cutting Issues

Global frameworks Women's leadership, voice, agency, participation & advocacy Capabilities, awareness, knowledge & skills
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